(September 24, 2021 at 1:17 pm)brewer Wrote: Would there be any atheists if theists way way back when did not start claiming 'god(s) did it'?
Seems like 'we don't know' would be a more philosophically rational choice but obviously that didn't happen. Christian is just a johnny come lately.
Ok, so it feels like your first statement is assuming that there was a time or people or civilization that had no concept of God and then all of the sudden theists started making up gods to explain things. Fine hypothesis, I guess, only I would challenge you to show me the people or culture or time where there was no God and then someone made it up. That's a strong assumption you can't prove. In fact, all of the evidence seems to point in the other direction: that man has always had a relationship with God, even though that relationship can get messed up.
Do you have a materialistic, evolutionary, humanist worldview? (or some combination of those? or none of them?) I'm trying to get a sense of what questions to ask you.
